On Thursday 22 January 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Thursday 22 January 2009 13:58:49 Rex Dieter wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Thursday 22 January 2009 12:44:14 Rex Dieter wrote:
> >> Neal Becker wrote:
> >>> Ever since F10, nm-applet is still used on kde and doesn't work
> >>> correctly. It always asks for passwords. The issue is with talking
> >>> to gnome-keyring-daemon IIUC. On my desktop, at least, this is still
> >>> not fixed.
> >>
> >> Works for some, not for others. *shrug*. gnome-keyring is a
> >> tempermental black-box sometimes, it seems.
> >
> > It asks for the password every time I connect, on my netbook, and it is
> > most annoying. What's more, if the connection is dropped it asks for
> > it again, and then fails to connect.
> >
> > Why does it need this at all? My Mandriva laptop manages the
> > connection without this hassle.
>
> Not *needed*, gnome-keyring isn't required, but optional, but then
> you're guaranteed to have to re-enter passwords on every connect.
I was told to remove the login.keyring from .gnome2/keyrings/
I did, but when next I started it asked me for my passphrase, then asked
for a password for the keyring. I'm back to square one.
Anne
I tried Rex's advice from the bug report. I installed
gnome-keyring-manager,
deleted the login stuff, installed gnome-keyring-pam. Log out/in. No change.